Origins, how the Nine Months before Birth shape the rest of our Lives… on Pinterest

The book’s most chilling section involves the tragic results of thalidomide and diethylstilbestrol (DES), two drugs from the 1950s that were “given to pregnant women in the belief that the fetus would be unaffected.”

Annie Murphy Paul reveals six decades later:It is evidence of the evolving state of our knowledge that the mechanisms by which these substances do their damage are not completely clear, even now.